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Merze Tate

The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar

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Merze Tate

By: Barbara D. Savage
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Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905-1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a "sex and race discriminating world." Against all odds, the brilliant and hardworking Tate earned degrees in international relations from Oxford University in 1935 and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1941. She then joined the faculty of Howard University, where she taught for three decades of her long life spanning the tumultuous twentieth century.

This book revives and critiques Tate's prolific and prescient body of scholarship, with topics ranging from nuclear arms limitations to race and imperialism in India, Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Tate credited her success to other women, Black and white, who helped her realize her dream of becoming a scholar. Her quest for research and adventure took her around the world twice, traveling solo with her cameras.

Barbara Savage's skilled rendering of Tate's story is built on more than a decade of research. Tate's life and work challenge provincial approaches to African American and American history, women's history, the history of education, diplomatic history, and international thought.

©2023 Barbara D. Savage (P)2024 Tantor 20th Century Modern Women Imperialism
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Great intellectual history!

This was an incredibly engaging intellectual history. I had no idea who Merze Tate was. The details of her work and the other Black women scholars who are mentioned in the book opened a whole different world of interest for me!

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Gratifying

It was gratifying to learn about Merze Tate and her academic excellence both as a student and educator.

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